LONG-TERM BEDS
THE HOLDUP

Lions Gate
Hospital's 1,800-long
elective surgery
waiting list could be
eliminated within a
year, says the presi-
dent of the North and
West Vancouver
Hospital Society.

But this can’t happen until
long-term care patients
currently occupying acute

care hospital beds are
moved, president Ken Bruce

told the annual hospital
society mecting last Wed-
nesday.

Other reasons for the

waiting list are the difficulty
of getting experienced
nurses, especially in the
summer. and the difficulty tn

bringing together the
patient. surgeon,
anesthetist, general prac

tioner and a hospital bed. all
at short notice, Bruce said
The elective surgery list as
around | SOO right now, the
highest oon Some

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WEDNESDAY:
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intervals. Cooler

THURSDAY:
Cloudy.
A few showers.

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classes yesterds:

Second at
Ross Road
this year

By PAT RICH

Stadents at Ross
Road Elementary
School returned to
to
find vandals had turn-
ed their library into a
ruinous mess of char-

red books and melted

equipment.

And the incident was
made even more tragic by
the fact the school was still
recovering from a blaze in
February that gutted two
classrooms.

A North Vancouver
District Fire Department
spokesman said the fire that
destroyed most of the books
in the libary was reported at
Sa.m. Saturday morning.

He said a neighbor
reported seeing smoke com
ing from the hbrary building
which 1s on the west side of
the school at 2875 Bushnell
Place

Fire fighters arnved and
manapged to contain the fire
inthe bbrary although there
was some damage to the ad
yountng classrooms

Most of the books ino the
libary were cither destroyed
or badly damaged Equip
ment stored tn the room was
also damaged and stacks of
chairs were melted by the

heat of the blazac

No estimate of the daniage

has yet been calle ulated

The spokesman said the
fire was “deliberately set
through vandahsm " and the
North RCMP

describe ito as a “suspicious
fire

Vancouver

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